A fish-less offseason trek through Sorrento Italy leads us to the best pizzeria on the Amalfi Coast. Four months ago I stood on a rooftop in Sorrento Italy sipping a very dry and delicious pinot grigio with our vacation cat, Freddie. Flavors of lemon and pear exploded in my mouth from this lovely somewhat local …
Month: April 2020
Here it is mid-April mid pandemic and day fifty of gluten-free baking; Or as I like to call it, baking away the boredom. When I’m not baking all kinds of gluten-free yum-yums I’m trying to sweat out the calories hiking up mountains with good friends. A good friend is always there when you make an …
I live in a place where I have to drive two hours to the city to buy paneer cheese when I start craving palak paneer. That is, if one of the six or seven health foods shops I frequent even have paneer cheese in stock. If I drive south twenty miles and endure an hour …
Baking up a batch of my gluten-free version of one of my favorite old fashioned oatmeal cookies is always a good idea. Baking away the boredom during a pandemic is a fantastic waste of time; At least until your pants don’t fit anymore. Sometimes when we’re having cocktails in the evening and drinking wine and …
It was three p.m. and I was a very sweaty hiker, and I was so damn tired of hiking. I knew, somewhere, back at camp, a big bowl of Elk Sweet Potato Chili was waiting for me. But first I had to walk the last, terrible mile and a half back to the trailhead and …